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Inspired By What’s On The Way
The Passing Train at Sunset by Jann Alexander ©2015 “It’s the journey, stupid.” —Variation on a 1992 campaign phrase attributed to James...
Jann Alexander
Jun 1, 20153 min read
The Intricacies of Entanglement
Tangled Web by Jann Alexander ©2015 “Oh, what a tangled web we weave / When first we practise to deceive!” — Sir Walter Scott, Marmion...
Jann Alexander
May 2, 20151 min read
A Letter from a Writer to Her Characters
The thing I’ve discovered about writing a novel like A Habit of Hiding is that its presence is always with me. Even when I’m not writing...
Jann Alexander
Apr 3, 20154 min read
Into the Depths and Beyond
IkKil’s Sacred Blue Ceynote by Jann Alexander ©2014 Deep underground in the luxuriant tropical rainforest that is Mexico’s Ik Kil...
Jann Alexander
Jan 30, 20152 min read
A Year to Measure by the Numbers
Beachgoers by Jann Alexander ©2014 When I look back upon a year , I look at it in terms of numbers. Numbers of photographs, that is. And...
Jann Alexander
Dec 31, 20142 min read
Are You Important Enough to Have Writer’s Block?
Setting by Jann Alexander © 2013 Paul O’Dwyer :“What are you writing?” Pete Hamill: “Nothing Paul, I think I have some kind of block.”...
Jann Alexander
Jun 25, 20143 min read
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